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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By : John Farrar
Book Image

ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By: John Farrar

Overview of this book

Adobe ColdFusion is an application server, renowned for rapid development of dynamic websites, with a straightforward language (CFML), powerful methods for packaging and reusing your code, and AJAX support that will get developers deep into powerful web applications quickly. However, developing rich and robust web applications can be a real challenge as it involves multiple processes.With this practical guide, you will learn how to build professional ColdFusion applications. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just what you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.This book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion 9 to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with. It also covers the new features of ColdFusion 9 like ORM Database Interaction and CF Builder.ColdFusion expert John Farrar will teach you the basics of ColdFusion programming, application architecture, and object reuse, before showing you a range of topics including AJAX library integration, RESTful Web Services, PDF creation and manipulation, and dynamically generated presentation files that will make you the toast of your ColdFusion developer town.This book digs deep with the basics, with real-world examples of the how and whys, to get more done faster with ColdFusion 9.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Fun with lists


One of the most annoying lemons of coding is working with list type elements. This would include select boxes, radio buttons, and checkboxes. We will be looking at four kinds of lists in the next page we create. Create a file called list.cfm and we will begin adding code. Of course, add the import tag as we did in our first example. Also, add the wrapping start and end COOP tags and we will be ready to go:

<cfimport prefix="coop" taglib="/share/tags/coop"/>
<coop:coop>
  <!--- place the view tags here --->
</coop:coop>

Select list tag

It is funny how much code it takes to make a list tag work. First let's take a look at the HTML that would be on a prototype page when a designer hands it off to a developer. We are going to put all the code on the page a designer would have for a select list. For now, we are not including any standard style CSS code. That will come later. All the code here is what we would find in a common page:

<label for="mySelect"&gt...